Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Список незвичайних смертей" in Ukrainian language version.
...the historical literature reports only few isolated cases over the last 150 years...
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
At Anagni Hadrian proclaimed the emperor excommunicate and a few days later, to cool himself down [during the hot weather] he started off for a certain fountain along with his attendants. When he got there he drank deeply and at once (according to the story), a fly entered his mouth, stuck to his throat, and could not be shifted by any device of the doctors: and as a result, the pope died., cited in Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. (1997). Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present ; with 308 Illustrations, 105 in Color (англ.). London: Thames and Hudson. с. 97. ISBN 978-0-50001-798-2.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
On May 23 of that year, he stood in the doorway of the home at which he was staying and a bolt of lightning took him. Family and friends, shocked by the event, recalled that that was how he wished to go.
His gravestone, erected in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, is a monument to bizarre death, with a story so unusual that it needed to be carved in stone for posterity.
There was no reason at all why the explorers should have perished when and where they did
The circumstances of his death were somewhat bizarre.
To some of the most distinguished of our race death has come in the strangest possible way, and so grotesquely as to subtract greatly from the dignity of the sorrow it must certainly have occasioned.
Ctesias, the Greek physician to Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, gives an appallingly detailed description of the execution inflicted on a soldier named Mithridates, who was misguided enough to claim the credit for killing the king's brother, Cyrus...
To some of the most distinguished of our race death has come in the strangest possible way, and so grotesquely as to subtract greatly from the dignity of the sorrow it must certainly have occasioned.
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: Обслуговування CS1: Сторінки з параметром url-status, але без параметра archive-url (посилання)To some of the most distinguished of our race death has come in the strangest possible way, and so grotesquely as to subtract greatly from the dignity of the sorrow it must certainly have occasioned.
The reality of this assertion seemed, however, then incredible to Dr. Spry, who could scarcely suppose it possible that any human being could exist after receiving melted lead into the stomach...
The story of Rasputin's death is one of the best-known moments of his life. Even people who know almost nothing about the man have heard of how he died, and his bizarre end has long since become part of global popular culture.
In Dundee, Scotland, 22 year old Jane Goodwin died a truly Victorian death – lacing her corsets too tightly.
Death by Paris Green was one of the stranger causes of death in the 19th century.
Sam Wardell was a lamplighter who attached a ten pound rock to his alarm clock. When the alarm clock went off, the rock would fall onto the floor. Why a lamplighter had to be up so early is a mystery to me as they lit the gas lamps in the evenings, however, one night he moved his furniture for a party. He failed to move the furniture back. The alarm clock went off, and the rock fell right on his head.
Here is a newspaper account of the unusual death of Clement Vallandigham, a leader of the Copperhead Democrats during the Civil War.
Her demise was altogether unexpected, so much so that her family and close friends were so upset by the news last night that it was several hours before they could discuss the case at all.
Knud R. Joergensen wrote in 1995 about the 1791 case of composer Franz Kotzwara who enlisted the help of a London prostitute, Susannah Hill, to assist him with his bizarre wish. After paying Hill two shillings, Kotzwara asked her to cut off his genitalia – a request the prostitute refused. Yet, Hill did agree to fulfill Kotzwara's sexual wish of strangling himself with a rope. It was the first documented case of death by sexual strangulation.
Fatal accidents did occur as in the case of Arrhichion, but they were very rare...
There were 13 deaths, but not one of them was caused by fire itself," Las says. "They were all to do with the madness that took hold. Some of the stories were very sad, but some of them were also bizarre. My favourite is the house where there was a wake going on. The people there put themselves at risk to save the corpse, but they only save him enough to make sure he doesn't burn, before they all run back to get themselves some free whiskey. I like that because it is just so human.
Milo of Croton's death was bizarre, but fitting
Fatal accidents did occur as in the case of Arrhichion, but they were very rare...
It is impossible to figure to one's self any event which could produce a greater sensation or be more striking to the imagination than this, happening at such a time and under such circumstances: the eminence of the man, the sudden conversion of a scene of gaiety and splendour into one of horror and dismay; the countless multitudes present, and the effect upon them-crushed to death in sight of his wife and at the feet (as it was) of his great political rival-all calculated to produce a deep and awful impression.
It was 133 years ago, on 19 December 1881, that the Tory MP Sir William Payne-Gallwey was out shooting in Bagby, North Yorkshire, when he fell over and landed on a turnip. The impact killed the poor man.
The odds of being struck and killed by a meteorite are said to be as low as one in 250,000.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
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: Обслуговування CS1: Сторінки з параметром url-status, але без параметра archive-url (посилання)John Ericsen, the 11-year-old son of a sectionman in the employ of the Northern Pacific, who has been missing since the Fourth of July, met with a tragic and unusual death, his crushed and mangled body being found today beneath a mass of coal in a bin near the Northern Pacific roundhouse.
A most remarkable and unusual death took place at the state insane asylum in Norfolk.
A fatality of a very peculiar nature occurred early this morning.
Sir William, so late as Thursday, was out shooting in the parish of Bagby, and in crossing a turnip field fell with his body on to a turnip, sustaining severe internal injuries. All that medical aid could do was done, but with Sir William's failing health he gradually sank, and died, as stated above, about ten o'clock yesterday morning.
[...]if there was any known drug acting as a poison in the beer it was almost certainly arsenic. Improbable as this hypothesis at first seemed, yet it was a valid hypothesis, for it was not known to be untrue, it explained all the facts, and it was easily capable of proof or disproof.
[...]if there was any known drug acting as a poison in the beer it was almost certainly arsenic. Improbable as this hypothesis at first seemed, yet it was a valid hypothesis, for it was not known to be untrue, it explained all the facts, and it was easily capable of proof or disproof.
At the time of Tycho's death, in 1601, the blame fell on his failure to relieve himself while drinking profusely at the banquet, supposedly injuring his bladder and making him unable to urinate.
The Earl of Carnarvon died peacefully at 2 o'clock this morning. He was conscious almost to the end.
Despite the pitch that Creighton introduced, he is best known for his mysterious death.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
Fatal accidents did occur as in the case of Arrhichion, but they were very rare...
Isadora Duncan's bizarre death was a brutal end to a controversial life.
Morris started keeping diaries when he first went to France in 1789, and continued journaling until his rather unusual manner of death in 1816 when he tried to remedy a blocked urethra using a piece of whalebone, leading to a deadly infection.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
At the time of Tycho's death, in 1601, the blame fell on his failure to relieve himself while drinking profusely at the banquet, supposedly injuring his bladder and making him unable to urinate.
Knud R. Joergensen wrote in 1995 about the 1791 case of composer Franz Kotzwara who enlisted the help of a London prostitute, Susannah Hill, to assist him with his bizarre wish. After paying Hill two shillings, Kotzwara asked her to cut off his genitalia – a request the prostitute refused. Yet, Hill did agree to fulfill Kotzwara's sexual wish of strangling himself with a rope. It was the first documented case of death by sexual strangulation.
Here is a newspaper account of the unusual death of Clement Vallandigham, a leader of the Copperhead Democrats during the Civil War.
The Earl of Carnarvon died peacefully at 2 o'clock this morning. He was conscious almost to the end.
Isadora Duncan's bizarre death was a brutal end to a controversial life.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.